By far the best insight on Frazetta. Finally someone who can actually draw is breaking his stuff down. There are to many non skilled people reviewing on him. But your skills are exceptional.

@kellymiller9273

4 ай бұрын

BASIC ART 101

It isn't just his grasp on anatomy---for ME, it was the pure, raw, Super expression of MOVEMENT---how ANIMATED he made his characters. And especially the PRIMORDIAL "Feel" to his Sci-Fi---Fantasy paintings, which is what taught me how to draw and paint when I was in my 20's.

@raygsbrelcik5578

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ultimate81 Thank you, I think I will. I've recently felt the desire to create a few Fantasy paintings.

He did those comic strips when he was in his late teens and early twenties

Frazetta. Originaly I thought that he was a Psychedelic ARTist, but he was a comic-book illustrator wayyy before that age. Amazing detail. Love the Viking oriented stuff.

In college getting my BFA. I had an art appreciation class 1975. The teacher said write a paper on any artist. I did mine on Frazetta. The teacher gave me a D. I had her explain to me why a D. She said because Frazetta was not an artist, but only an illustrator. I argued the fact he was an artist! She gave me a C. Well, I tried to educate her!

@Draco262

4 жыл бұрын

She obviously didn't understand what art was.

@hirohikonishikawa4851

3 жыл бұрын

This is very normal, people mix things up. Shows you how useless those classes are in the first place, they were in the past and they still are. Art is about something personal you have to be able to appreciate art by yourself and not being taught to appericate it. From an educational school system standpoint I can grasp why she would say it, "art" in that relation is something totally different to somethind what frazetta did just counting his illustration and comic work. I personally would also have some problems judging comic work as art, it might be art but a very different type of art. Also many westerners consider the modern japanese art as real art which I must highly disagree with it , it is all about personal viewpoints.

@AllenFreemanMediaGuru

3 жыл бұрын

@Ralph's Place Very good point.

@ILoveCiniminis

3 жыл бұрын

All these salty jealous "artists"... I would really like to hear her definition of what is art... Was she one of those artists that shit on the canvas, spread it 4 ways and sell it?...

@antmax

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I did illustration at college in the early 90's. I got a similar result. The teachers all liked ideas. Technicians draw blah, blah. When they saw my Frazetta book, it probably didn't help that the lady was a bit of a feminazi and couldn't see past the powerful or exotic figures. It was just "Kitsch" pulp nonsense to her. For me its often the movement and the structure of the painting, the confidence of the drawing, the brush strokes and the solidity of everything, how the colours are used and the essence of power and explosive energy. Its portrayed in so many subtle ways and details if you really look. Its easy to get lost in it all. A lot of people don't look, or just superficially, oh, naked vulnerable, probably subservient female, powerful dominant alpha male guy and just dismiss it. That's not always where the art is though you can enjoy it on that level and man obviously do. Most of Franks work is deeper than that. College wasn't the best experience for me. I ended up doing computer animation and only recently started thinking of going back to my roots and drawing and painting for my own pleasure again. Really like the look of this series Jesus Lopez, wish I had info like this years ago :)

For me it was Leonardo Davinci’s sketchbooks that got me into those little nuances and eventually thinking in terms of form-love the video!

@zacharyhorvath3615

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ultimate81 ugh, sorry I made my comment about halfway through watching your video out of excitement because I had never heard someone else talk about line and structure in such a way-I feel like my comment seems a bit pretentious reading it back-anyway I totally love how you tied designing forms into it all, and making a distinction between anatomy/proportion and character (design). Design is such a foreign seeming skill that I have only recently begun to explore, but it’s so powerful in terms of expression. I saw an Albrecht Durër show a while back, and it discussed how he had spent half his career trying to perfect anatomy, only to realize in retrospect that his pursuit of perfecting anatomy had actually made for stiffer and less lively drawings (I love his work but kind of know what he meant). It’s really amazing how iconic Frazetta was. His compositions are so immediately recognizable, and he achieved greatness within so many mediums. I think it’s easy in a way to almost not get him for younger artists, who haven’t yet realized that he created so many of these now classic sci-fi and fantasy tropes- I was definitely guilty of that. Anyway, once again I love the video, very thoughtfully done, and inspired!

Michaelangelo actually went to the morgue and learned anatomy by doing his own type of autopsy. At the time it was highly illegal, and he could have been put to death for doing that, but he was sculpting the statue David and could not get the muscles right, so that was his answer.

You are thumbing through your highly valued Frazetta book and your pointing with your "exposed pen tip!" and just talking away without a care in the world except explaining Frazetta's genius! I just kept thinking, "Holy shit! He's going to accidentally mark a Frazetta! AGGGGGGG!" I have that book and had the great pleasure of visiting Frazetta's museum in the Masonic building downtown in 1988. Sara Frazetta was there but was she was just over a year old cooing and goo-gooing around on the floor. Ellie and Heidi were totally absorbed into little Sara. lol. Frank wasn't there. Damn. But, was blown away by the work. I have an old photo of me standing in front when I left my visit. You are very talented and love your enthusiasm for Franks' work. ME TOO!

Fantastic series. Absolutely fantastic. Frazetta was also a master of weapons, armor, machinery, architecture... you name it. I mean, hell, just look at the way the man drew bridges. I would love to see more on these subjects.

@dannydanielsnyc

2 жыл бұрын

I loved the way he drew nature . He would draw swamps and things like he literally seen it for hours or lived there. Moss ... mushrooms. His nature game was on point too

"shape first structure later." I'll take that advice!

Well he would even draw the line of that bone behind the ear, the bump we have there. He is just the right mix of realistic and stylised

What a wonderful presentation video, I'm sure you've opened the eyes of many, as well as opened more hearts and minds to the appreciation of art and the artists behind their works of art. Thank you for this, and look forward to your next submission.

@Ultimate81

Жыл бұрын

Thankyou.

Thanks for your time sharing this! much appreciated!

This is a great video / tutorial. No joke, your video on the great one and sharing your own story and talent has really inspired to pick up a pencil and dedicate myself to learning the human anatomy and become a better artist.

Jesus, the Frazetta book is great, where are all those great pictures, haven't seen those for years ! Thought the publisher may have kept all the art !!!

Fascinating! Thanks.

I'm working on a pulp fantasy tabletop RPG inspired by the works of people like Frank Frazetta, Ralph Bashki etc, along with modern influences from digital games. Thanks so much for all the incredibly useful, inspiring and relaxing content you put out -- your interview with Barry was awesome, and this series is so so helpful. I've always sort of dipped in and out of actually making art like this and thought it's not good enough etc, but having your insights and tutorials alongside the works and insights of people like Barry and Bashki has been so genuinely motivational and inspiring! Thank u so much :D

@Ultimate81

Жыл бұрын

Oh, thank you for the nice comment.

You can tell a Master like Frazetta because they are able to capture things in their drawings that even other great artists can’t quite describe!!!

This is a great study on an amazing artist. Good job. Keep posting.

You have to remember, Frank Frazetta went to art school. All serious artists did. That's not to say every student in his class went on to be great. Frazetta was definitely an exceptional talent. But having awareness of bones and muscles was standard. Thing is, Frank went when he was 9 years old! In a class with teenagers. He was special. Which is why his art stood out for the time. I remember having all the Conan paperbacks as a kid. Nobody did covers like Frazetta. As @raygsbrelcik5578 in the comments section said here, Frank's work had a motion to it that was so much more dynamic. And when you talk about design, Frank's vision was unique, too, making him the model others would copy for decades. I'm talking in particular about his taste in jewelry, weapon and armor design. It has an authenticity (because just like he researched the human body, he researched real historical objects). He became the template for Hollywood and everything that would lead up to today's fantasy artists.

I just discovered Frazetta. Did a line drawing of his Death Dealer. Sure learned a lot from the Master! Thanks for your video.

This video has been particularly informative for me at this time, as I've been making an effort to break away from slavish adherence to the styles of the artists I've taken my example from over the years, breaking away from certain ironclad rules, in order to speed up my drawing time and also to get comfortable with free drawing. There was another video I watched recently which said something very like your points on shapes: get the forms down first, worry about details afterward. I've lately been doing a lot of drawing of natural forms: rock formations, trees, plants, mushrooms and toadstools, and letting myself play with the drawing process --- and doing so without underlying guide pencils as an additional challenge. I don't even particularly care just right now if I get the object I'm drawing exactly right because the object of the exercise is to loosen up, get comfortable with the general shape, the organic line, the use of line weight to define objects near and far, and also to allow a style of my own emerge. I began by looking at shapes and negative space. Since then, the experiment has really helped to open up my technique and my ability to see things in new ways. Watching this video, I found my mind flowing along with the demonstration here and even jumping ahead in spots with the insights about using basic shapes to form a drawing.

@Ultimate81

Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy for your journey. Have fun.

Very informative video. I'll be sure to watch the rest!

i done this like you ,Conan all the time loved the human body .....now 51 doing a sculpt of Dark Wolf ,Frazetta style fee hand ....So much respect for artistes ..

I recently was inspired to start drawing to merge my passion for tattoos to hopefully become a tattoo artist. This is a late in life decision. I have literally zero drawing skills, none at all. What I do have is an obsessing interest in it and have always had a love for art drawings, paintings. I’m trying to learn by reading and watching KZread videos, I’ve been getting very frustrated with my lack of progression and understanding. Key concepts aren’t clicking as I feel they should. This is the first video that’s gotten me to shift my thinking a bit, definitely going to purchase this book. Just gotta be consistent and keep practicing. If your just learning to draw, I’m with you, it’s so damn difficult and I’ve felt like quitting so many times. We just gotta stay consistent and keep practicing, anything can be learned.

Another great video my friend.

Awesome video, valuable information, thank you!!

@Ultimate81

Жыл бұрын

Thankyou

Very instructive thanks.

Oh wow Jesus, when you started drawing that face explaining how you used to draw Charictemrtures.....It was like looking at myself drawing, and Im 36 in a few weeks drawn my whole life and have no understanding of why I draw and your face is how I draw my faces. I have that bridgman book Im going through an early midlife crisis and never followed my dream of making my art my career, and i havnt made a proper illustration in over 10years. Thank you for this video, I hope to follow you alot more I hope in the years since you made this video you have gone on to create amazing things with your art And I wish you all the best. Thanks Jesus

Frank Frazetta understood appreciated and emphasized the human form..PERIOD..his fantasy art alone screamed for attention and got it..awsome stuff

Duuuuude you have a natural instructor quality. I have that Bridgman book and it helped me out SO MUCH as a self taught artist. Another great series of books are the Juliette Aristides books about drawing and painting.

@Ultimate81

Жыл бұрын

Cool, I'll check it put

We all want to be as good as Frazetta. He is the greatest of his genre and craft. Frazetta is to fantasy art as Tom Brady is to football, Wayne Gretzky is to hockey, Shakespeare is to poetry etc etc. But you, Jesus Lopez, are damn good yourself, my friend!!

@christhayil8354

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ultimate81 Glad I made your day. Hang tough, friend... you are not alone; we all have rotten days.

This was very informative thank you,im trying to get back in to drawing as i was considered talent as child but nothing came out of it. But i have this urge to draw and my favorite artist is Frank,so thank you again.

@anima6035

Жыл бұрын

How's it going? I hope well 🌞 I'm in a similar situation but I wasn't considered talent lol, I just always loved art but life got in the way - ended up doing photography and got to a pretty decent level but my heart wants to draw!!!!

Love this. About to get my hands on a copy of Bridgeman’s

Awesome video! thank you very much for this

Excellent video! Not just great, excellent!

Excellent drawings sir! keep up da good work!

And to think he would do a master piece front start to stop in one night. One of the most impressive human beings ever.

Thanks for sharing your studies and analysis! Your sketchbook is sooooo good! You should be proud of it man.

@wevidahwabbit

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Do you have social media like Instagram? Want to be inspired by your art daily. :)

@wevidahwabbit

6 жыл бұрын

Found ya! Keep it up! Wanna see more of your stuff.

@Ultimate81

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words.

Not sure why I stumble on to videos like this years after it was first posted. I like what you're doing. Thank you Jesus for this video!

i love what you're doing! thank you for sharing your knowledge. what pen are you using here? it looks really satisfying to use!

Thanks for this!

Amazing, dude.

great video! How would you describe over indexing detail? I like that term

Just bought a bu h of grazers prints , you’re an inspiration. Thanks

very nice analysis , I'm just a beginner but I find these infos useful!

Maybe a word or two about Frazetta's use of negative space around his drawings would be useful. I guess that comes under his use f designed shape as well.

@Ultimate81

Жыл бұрын

I did check out my other videos bro.

A little remark from a trauma surgeon: the radius is on the side of your thumb, and the other bone is called ulna... But that kinda proves your point. Thank you for the video and for your insights 😊

@Ultimate81

21 күн бұрын

Wow your a trauma surgeon, I'm a huge fan. I would love to pick your brian on the human anatomy. Especially the Achilles tendon, or tendons in general. The shapes vary everywhere in the body. Would you be open to an interview?

just ordered my Bridgeman's!

Nice collection. What is this folio that you are flipping through called? Is there a publisher name on it?

Que dibujante que ilustrador Frazetta realmente uno de los mejores de todos los tiempo

Looking at Frazetta's art has inspired me to become an artist. I'm gonna try to learn his style and then make my own. Pls wish me luck

Hey! I love your stuff sir :D Just wanted to say - the thing about Bridgman being Frazettas first book is wrong :D He already had a really good grasp of anatomy, he knew the major muscles etc. What Bridgmans book did was help him put his knowledge into design. It was NOT the be all end all book, but rather a book for a person who was already a mid-range artist. There's this legend that he copied Bridgmans book in one night :D

thanks for taking the time to do this these would be way more effective if you set up pages to make certain points you know make a marker on a page...ie: this is great example on the way he ties the figures together....next this is a great example of the way he uses energy and balance......next see the way he use light to highlight where he wants you to look and the line of action that takes you into the battle...truthfully it seems like lots of the time you are winging it...I know you have stuff I'm interested in ...I am a full time artist and done tons of teaching please take it the way it was intended...I put frazetta in the top five american artists of all time

Hello, I was wondering if you Recommend Bridgeman for beginner artists, I've taken some fundamentals classes already, but as I did research I see artists like Proko recommending only touch Bridgman if you've nailed down your anatomy. It seems as though you as well have done plenty of anatomy drawings before touching Bridgeman, I guess my question is would you recommend Bridgeman for beginners? I really want to study it as a love drawing and design, but am not sure if I should try, Thank you very much for your video it was really informative :)

amazing stuff wtf!! i dont even draw lately i been amazed by artists and now im going down a rabbit hole started with stan lee vids . im on shrooms right now and wow real incredible minds out their this is amaing stuff. i like how you break down this stuff to. this is outtta this world really. to be able to draw , especially like this is amazing.!

@ProdByGhost

3 жыл бұрын

wow herd you mention jim lee i was looking at his stuff to hes great

@ProdByGhost

3 жыл бұрын

wow you draw amazing stuff sorry im new to all this im intrested af thanks for this vid

@ProdByGhost

3 жыл бұрын

i learned so much thiis is mind blowing to me

@ProdByGhost

3 жыл бұрын

now it makes sense in one of those stan lee comic creator vids jim lee was in and they were saying he knew allot of the anatomy or that they did not know it in great detail intresting how you point this out great stuff

@ProdByGhost

3 жыл бұрын

20:36 lol!! im dead fuckk amazing detail wow love what you said haha makes so much sense

I think Michelangelo's David is a good example of what you mentioned about design before structure. His proportions are not ''correct'' as how would put it. Yet it's these clever slight alterations to his proportions that made it a masterpiece, or otherwise anyone can make a cast of a muscular model. Anyway, great video, looking forward to the remaining parts

You have Frazetta mentioned in the title; but it looks like George Bridgeman for the snapshot.

Nice what do you think of the techniques of Boris Vallejo and Jeffrey jones ??

excellent video. Thanks. The structure over shapes at 22 minutes resonated. That’s a mistake i fell into.

It was Frazetta and da Vinci that taught me how to draw the figure

Holy hell man, do you do lessons? You're quite the master yourself.

Thanks for this. I started as a kid wanting to draw and got really into anatomy. I'm a personal trainer now, and my drawings have gotten much better, but when I focus too much on anatomy my brain kind of shuts down. I have to remind myself to draw using shapes, not necessarily 100% true anatomy.

Buena reseña!

Look at Buscema’s squiggle method to sketching in drawing the Marvel Way, when Frazetta draws the tiger in his Painting with Fire DVD , he uses the same method.

If you're gonna buy a Bridgman book, you want "Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life". ALL the answers are in this "Complete" edition.

Where can we find that book you have in the video?

Great video. The art shown here makes so many comic artists out there look like they aren't even trying to learn their craft.

@malafakka8530

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for responding and for your suggestions. I have known some of Frazetta's artwork for over two decades, but only now did I somehow feel the curiousity to check out more of his drawings through some videos here on youtube. Your video was a nice help to understand him at a deeper level. I'll probably buy one or two of his artbooks.

When learning anatomy, do I have to memorize all the Bones and muscles of the body?

Design = Form & Function

what is the name of this book exactly ? is it a type OF ART omnibus? i would like to order this online. anyone know?

No put that treasure on a binder with plastic sleeves so it stops falling apart. Separate all the pages with a cutter and put them inside them. That way you can use it and preserve the book.

You are right. It should be design not proportion. Every time I hear proportion, it gets me stiffer and I would be less likely to explore the other proportion that would lead to a better design.

Gotta get bridgeman books now. Thanks

@Graphico_1

4 жыл бұрын

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A couple very good books, IMO, are by Burne Hogarth; "Dynamic Anatomy" and "Dynamic Figure Drawing".

@smasica

6 жыл бұрын

Hogarth breaks the figure down into basic shapes and really pushes dynamic gesture and movement. He also delves into some interesting ideas on portraying the figure in unique perspectives to the viewer. Foreshortening and conveying mass is well covered, too. I found a lot of echoes between his methods and Frazetta's work. FF was keen on conveying powerful action and gesture and Hogarth pushed those ideas, too. Are you at all familiar with Hogarth? I've had his book since the early 70s. I believe I bought it through the old North Light Book Club.

@dannycruz5446

6 жыл бұрын

Dynamic Anatomy is kind of a useless book, IMO, but, Dynamic Figure Drawing is pretty brilliant, a great starting point for drawing dynamic figures out of your head without a model.

@smasica

6 жыл бұрын

I do prefer the figure drawing book to the anatomy book. I thought the anatomy book was a bit of a rehash of the other, to be honest.

@idiocracy10

5 жыл бұрын

@@smasica I bought the hogarth books many years ago, as they are very nice to look at, but they are too advanced for a beginner. bridgemans' is pretty good, because he accentuates the s curves in the body and his stuff isnt rendered out like hogarth's so the roughness is more inviting to the new person. but right now I am going thru Michael Hampton's book, "figure drawing design and invention", and it seems to have both the raw information as well as this beautiful progression from somewhat basic simple forms into beautiful constructions, and great rendering, so the whole gamut. It is not delving into medically accurate anatomy at all times, but is geared to the artist and their needs to build gesture and then musculature. anatomiaartistica.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/michael-hampton-figure-drawing-design-and-invention-1.pdf

why'd you re-upload it?

Big inspiration: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hZqpza2DnsSfY84.html

I bought the book early college age. Sadly, it came apart, and I no longer have it.

I notice one Frazetta work that he seems to prefer the ultra-realistic proportions over the idealized ones. His stuff isn't the common '8 heads tall' stuff that many teach as the 'ideal' figure.

He also didn’t start painting until late in life. Watch his biography DVD.

Wow, you know your stuff. Geeeeeeeezzzzz I mean how do you know so much? Please make more videos.

@darksekiro6378

3 жыл бұрын

Please marry me

Ha. All my books are falling apart too, from over use.

Hi Jesus! You have a nice Frazetta / drawing series here. Since my old days I get really keen to try drawing. What is the white pencil that draws gray? From which company? Leave your 'Understanding Frazetta' series as a playlist. Greetings from Germany. 🙂

@Ultimate81

Жыл бұрын

Hi, my friend. I am using crayola markers and a sharpie pen.

Hi Jesus Lopez, you have great skills. Do I have a chance to watch your work somewhere on the net?

@spacefoodable

6 жыл бұрын

Hello, yes, why not make a vid on how you came to drawing in volume, and maybe explain how to draw through the form, another good one could be drawing with volume seen from different angles and how things look distorted by perspective. This could make the subject of several videos. Thanks.

Question. How exactly do I use the Bridgman's Life Drawing book? Let's say I have the book before me. How do I learn from it? Do I begin by just drawing and copying as an exercise the first image I see in the book and then draw out and copy the next image, and so on. How do I go about using the book to learn how to draw? Many thanks.

@wolf7379

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Jesus. Much appreciated.

@wolf7379

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ultimate81 Thank you, Jesus, for your help - much appreciated!

i kind of know how to draw already since i used to draw a lot since i was a kid all the way up to my teens i stopped. im late 20s now and i want to start again but the thing is that i never really got so good. i was getting to the point where i understood that perhaps learning the human anatomy was the better way to go that way i can draw out the forms correctly and create what i want to create. so i want to learn to draw again, should i learn to draw the human anatomy first? like understand all the bones draw them out draw them all together to create different forms? or where exactly should i begin my drawing? shapes and anatomy? thanks

@senoranachos

3 жыл бұрын

Looking up Proko is a good place to start. That's where I started on learning anatomy but there's a lot of ways you can start learning, and the thing about anatomy is that there are a lot of ways you can interpret it. I started with gesture, construction using boxes, anatomy, and then perspective when you're ready to tackle it. But the biggest thing about your art journey is setting goals for yourself and why you want to draw and what you want to draw. Best of luck.

Jesus, the ink your pen leaves looks juicy as hell.

Been rough on that book:) mint it’s probably worth a bunch. He’s a genius. Doesn’t it seem like after all these years we should have seen another Frazetta level artist? Those guys that came out of the forties knew that job opportunities were everywhere and they were hungry to get out of the hood and Art was their ticket. Also they didn’t have the myriad of distractions that kids today have, distractions that take them away from the drawing board. Frazetta was drawing at a high level when he was a teenager.

@Ultimate81

Жыл бұрын

He was indeed drawing at a high level.

There was a Great Orchestral Conductor who's name was also Jesus Lopez.

Why are the drawings at 8:11 done with? The skulls. Great vidio thanks. :)

@conradsmith9332

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ultimate81 oops I meen what are they drawn with, my bad haha! I understand why you did them I'm thinking of starting my own studies but these skulls looked real nice and I'm not sure what they are drawn with. Sorry for the typo :)

@conradsmith9332

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ultimate81 WOW that's amazing for a ballpoint! It looks like pencil shading to me! You are certainly talented and have proven you don't need great supplys

For me he is very similar to john busema I'm not sure which artist started first,but their style is similar IMO

@Ultimate81

Жыл бұрын

Intresting

that other bone is the ulna.

The radius and ulna are reversed in your study.

Awesome! Would you consider to critique some drawings?

@robertnordgren2616

6 жыл бұрын

Jesus Lopez that’s great! And very kind of you. Where do i send them?

Are you sure you have the right Bridgman? Acc. to Frazetta Girls' website they write that he picked up: "Constructive Anatomy’ by George Bridgman and a book by Victor Perard". I noticed Bridgman has multiple books out. Not sure if they overlap or something. Just wondering. That said I think Bridgman has several useful tomes out worth picking up and learning from.

@Ultimate81

Ай бұрын

Yup I agree, I think it's a great book.

The secret to anatomy is just have a nude model stand there and forget proportions. Go for lines first. Then draw meat lumps on top of the lines and decide whether is looks appealing to you from a long distance. The physique of the person matters: if they are skinny and not muscular you make them pose in a way that gives their body interesting flow that looks balance across the page to use it up which draws attention to the person. (think of a teenager who skateboards or a dancer) If they are bulky and stocky, you might want to draw one portion of the body close to the camera to draw attention to a part of the body like a hand in a fist pose or stand with their face hunched forward to show their mean expression. This emphasise things like the big nose or jaw or something that looks distinct about them that is more developed than the other parts. A heroic physique to me: dude with broad shoulders, average chest, vaccum stomach, waist that is narrow enough for the upper body to look more developed but not narrower than the thighs which bulge out, and calves that are a little bit bigger than normal so they appear to stand out more than thigh muscles to make the limb seem more powerful at the extreme edge. /underdeveloped thigh muscles = top heavy character with a solid heavy base at the feet) The feet and hands are usually a little bit oversized (because he needs an action figure look to him if he expresses himself through violent action) and back muscles that are larger more bulky than front ones with a neck that is ripped. The reason is to fill out the empty spot so it appear the character works hard and swing a heavy weapon with ease. You play around with proportion based on how you see the character in your mind: a gymnast has equal muscle on all part of the body. A macho man wants upper body to be developed more because they express toughness with their hands, a wrestler might want ONLY bulky muscles t look big overall and a martial artist goes for lean muscles with ripped well defined look (think of a greyhound) who wants to fight people with speed and accuracy so your lines should be angular and less bulbous and round. A balanced person is overall more square-ish (think of a tradesman who works with tools a lot likea mechanic) while a heroic guy is tall which indicates they are more athletic (they can dodge being fired at by guns, but they are strong enough to pick people up that are the same size as themselves) and flexible than a bulky stocky bouncer. (who only has to be able to use size to intimidate people and take hits without being hurt) Think about what the character DOES. What lines suit them (squarish people are industrious and hard working, rectangular guys are athletic, and roundish people with mass are wrestlers who want to crush you with brute force. Short guys are quick on their feet so always have unique action pose (wolverine can cut you in the nuts better or lunge at your suddenly like a dog to stab you in the eyes) while bigger ones have too much muscles on their limbs to be able to scratch their own butt so will always looks more bland with poses and more about their overall facial expression to appear threatening/scary which makes the person looking at the painting feel afraid to bump into them or make them angry. Proportions are important when dealing with different age: a small child has much bigger head in proportion to the size of their body but an adult have bigger body in proportion to head. Proportion to me is not design, the design is really the overall silhouette of your character which has to stick out in a group of other people. So for example a tall gu with really pointy fingers look like he might be good at stabbing people with knives while a short guy with muscles is better at chopping people because they are low to the floor and have good balance to wield a top heavy weapon. (more follow-through in their movements compared to the stabby guy who is like a giant insect with sudden sharp movement) You image tells the person a lot about how they might move and what they do with their body. A dancer might twirl and spin, and a boxer may lean forward and be hunched to protect their face a bit more, while a sword wielder is going to have the tennis player physique. (move their feet to dodge a lot of the time and big forearm muscle to deflect blows in time) A skinny man with small muscles is going to move like a fencer, while a barbarian is going to attempt to chop your head off rather than poke you and go for weak point on your body. (ie skinny guy wants speed and dexterity, while muscle guy wants brute force and kill you in gorey way) Buy some comics, look at the types of heroes and decide what class of hero they are. Then think about what body parts you want to emphasise more than others. A light footed ninja assassin or warrior monk is not going to be bulky and noisy physique. A knight is not going to be short and pudgy. A balanced guy will not have heroic proportions (V-shaped superman chest with square jawline) but have high fat-to-muscle ratio and look a bit chubby rather than chiseled)

he would have made a good lotr artwork

I'm really curious now - how would you recommend an aspiring artist learn more about design? Are there any resources you'd recommend on the subject? Thanks so much for an enlightening video on a legendary artist, btw! You've inspired me to grab a book on Frazetta from the library and start really considering not if or when, but _how_ I'm going to learn how to draw.

@anima6035

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Absorb it, study it.. look at the greats, look at the not so greats, determine the difference. Copy (for study), practice, fall in love 🌞

@Ultimate81

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Trace your favorite drawi gs is a great way to gain insight on the artist thinking.

a true artist can draw, but those who can draw are not necessarily artists